morons

For the last week I have been watching with interest and dismay how this post with 1948 Israeli photos went viral. When I posted the photos I knew right away that this was a remarkable, eye opening material but the reality unfolded unexpectedly, I was staying on a side of a stampede. My midnight notes:

1. It took a month for someone to notice the photos. First a blogger linked to the photos in comments to a moderately read blog. The next day a small blog linked to the post. Then slightly larger blog and then a fairly known blog. Each link brought in from a 100 to a 1000 visitors. The virus got seeded. People started sneezing.
2. The post got linked in a widely read email list.
3. This is interesting and unexpected stage. The links were picked up by a few foreign language niche blogs. A German political blog and a Spanish Jewish blog. I guess the blogosphere is not as vast as in English. The very simple blogs turned out to have shockingly large readership. Hundreds or readers from every Spanish speaking country on earth came to look at the photos. This was really amazing to watch.
4. This is the stage where people who saw the photos started to email it to their friends in large numbers. Again there was certain order in this. First people who are advanced enough to have a gmail account, huge number of people, to my utter surprise, who still have an aol email and then all the wall.co.il people… This is when the post gone viral in Israel. Majority of visitors to the blog in the last week are from Israel. I think eventually every person in Israel will see the photos. I think the photos are so strong that they cane enable a cultural perception shift in the entire county. Once you have seen it, you are never the same. And here is the huge point that the reality supersedes mythology. Yes, reality supersedes mythology!
5. At this stage a few hareidy forums and a French Jewish blog picked up the posts. This was the most disappointing stage. They immediately lifted the photos and reposted on the hideous sites with no credit to the photographers, photos linked back to my server. This is called bandwidth theft and I had to disable all hot-linking via a server script. I don’t like to do this because it causes display problems with some of the RSS readers but I had no choice. In case of the moronic French blog they reposted all pictures on one page, triggering a cascade of error massages on my server. They never responded to my emails or even a phone call to France. The hareidy blogs are the examples of the supreme typographical ugliness, it is hard to imagine that people write and contribute to such a hideous site. The anonymity encourages most vile and stupid content. This is the culture that pretends to care about the crowns above the sacred letters but in realty have no concept of intellectual property, authorship or beauty. I hope this culture will perish soon, it is unbearable.
6. Couple of observations about the visitors that are still coming to the site, even caused my server to crash yet again yesterday. Let me say that I didn’t know so many morons existed in such a large numbers. There are three parts to the post but most don’t know how to click on the prominent links 2 and 3. Like monkeys they can only see one link at a time. They are completely unable to navigate a blog or any web site. Only 1% of visitors cared to look around.
7. Comments – Idiots, you come here to say that the photos are amazing? I know they are, everything I write is amazing or why would I blog? Every blogger must think that. Morons, if you can’t write a complete sentence, let alone a paragraph than shut the f. up. No one needs your comments. Especially the hideous a. holes who post backlinks to their monotonous propaganda.
8. Almost forgot, the posts got linked from some Palestinian forums where every member has an avatar of a dead martyr. And here the unexpected part. The hareidim and Palestinians both highlighted the same photos. I.e. an old Jew sitting on the ground in Jerusalem, Jews driven from Jerusalem, etc. I was thinking about that. For the hareidim seeing a Jew on the grounds evokes the iconic imagery of Tisha B’Av, proves that Jews were always in Jerusalem, proves that Jews are the real victims and evokes the favorite “we are humiliated and misunderstood by the world” Jewish porn. Palestinians repost the same pictures but they enjoy them for a different reason, they just like every instance of the Jewish humiliation. While Jews hide pictures where they drive away Arabs, Palestinians display the pictures of Jews being driven from Jerusalem with pride! And this brings me to th e following comment on a hareidy forum:

רבני ירושלים
הרב ישראל זאב מינצברג סבי זקני
ראבד העיר העתיקה
החכם הספרדי הוא הרב חזן
שניהם הלכו במסירות נפש עם דגל לבן להיכנע
למרות שראשי ההגנה התנגדו לכך ואפילו ירו לעברם אש חיה!
כי ראשי הממשל רצו שגורל אנשי הרובע יהיה כאנשי מצדה
שכולם ימותו

Was there ever a bigger pleasure, a bigger “self sacrifice” than to give up? The pathetic history under a white flag. I am sorry some of the Israeli Rabbis didn’t have the luck of their European contemporaries, namely using money and influence to escape the Nazis and leaving their misled followers to die. The Zionist pioneers wanted to get rid of this decrepit culture but the virus spread and it is threatening to consume the entire house of Israel.